Day: August 16, 2013

Entertainment

How Will Breaking Bad End? Here Are 7 Mind-Blowing Theories

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As reported on Wired. BY WIRED STAFF In a mere seven episodes, Breaking Bad is coming to an end. And it’ll be a tough goodbye. But show creator Vince Gilligan has promised that the ending will feel final – there won’t be some mysteriousSopranos-esque head-scratcher. It may not please everyone, but it will be definitive. Gilligan, who cut his teeth on The X-Files, is known for telling layered stories where nearly anything can be a future plot clue, Easter…

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Business Entertainment Review

Parrot Announces The A.R. Drone 2.0 Power Edition

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As reported on TechCrunch. by MATT BURNS It was hovering. Just sitting there. The livery was different. A black body with different color blades. Something was clearly different about this Parrot A.R. Drone 2.0. It wasn’t as colorful as the ones he had seen before. He sat there for a lot longer. This drone was clearly hiding something under the piano-black shell. Eight minutes passed. 16 minutes passed. Then, just before the 36 minute mark, the drone,…

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Business

Square Fined $507K In Florida For Operating A Mobile Payment Service Without A Money Transmitter License

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As reported TechCrunch. by INGRID LUNDEN A little more state-specific financial regulatory hot water forSquare, the hot mobile commerce startup: it has been fined $507,000 by Florida’s Office of Financial Regulation for operating a payment service without a money transmission license. This looks like the second time that a U.S. state financial regulator has gone after the company, after Square was served with a cease and desist order in Illinios in March 2013, also for failing to…

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Space Story

NASA halts efforts to repair Kepler space telescope

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As reported on Engadget. By Sean Buckley It’s had a good run, but it seems like NASA’s Kepler telescope is down for the count — the space agency says it has stopped repair efforts. The 0.95 meter diameter space telescope launched four years ago, tasked with seeking out Earth-sized planets suitable for habitation. All was going well until the rig’s gyroscopic reaction wheels began to fail, robbing it of the precision aim needed to continue its task. After months of…

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Application Entertainment

Syfy Now app streams full episodes to iOS today, Android next month

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As reported on Engadget. By Richard Lawler The Syfy for iPhone app is relaunching as SyFy Now, while the old Syfy app for iPad is reborn as Syfy Sync, dedicated solely to the network’s second screen ambitions. Why the changes? Now is all about TV Everywhere with streaming of full episodes of Syfy’s original series the day after they air and bookmarks that sync across devices with iCloud. This app can’t put Alphas back on the air, but it…

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